Disney World 2011

We went to Disney World for 9 days and it was a blast! It sounds like a long time, but I could have spent another 2 days or so there. We left at 12:55 AM and arrived around 10 AM. Jess and Joan joined us the next day, and Jason and Janae the day after that. Since our room wasn't ready when we arrived we headed to Epcot. We had a lunch reservation where Halle promptly ordered and then did this:

I got a text right as we finished up lunch letting us know our room was ready. Phew. Good thing she likes cold pizza like her momma since that's how she got to eat it after her nap.

The next morning was our Princess character breakfast in Norway in Epcot. We got a picture with Belle which she gave us a printout for free. FREE? Nothing in DWorld is free! We looked at the lady like she was crazy when she handed us the prints. They always hand them to you and then have a shpiel about how much they are. We were thrilled. Here are the Disney Princesses.

The wait for Tiana and Naveen was insane. After that experience we decided we would not do the same for Rapunzel.

My own personal princes:

Not one of my princes, but I loved this hat on him!

Awesome, Jess.

After the princess breakfast almost every picture had this new "princess pose" by Halle.

Woody and Jessie:

On the teacups:

Character breakfast at Chef Mickey's:

Same characters, but this time at Epcot and in different outfits.

Jess all alone while we waited in line for Chip 'n Dale. We thought it was funny how he was all alone on a park bench in the middle of DWorld.

And Minnie and Mickey, yet again, in different clothes. They are amazing, aren't they?

On to the animal kingdom.

Terk from Tarzan

Classic angry face, but her eyes look amazing in this picture. I dare you to enlarge the picture.

At Hollywood Studios on extra magic hours nights they have a dance party with Disney Junior (formerly Playhouse Disney) characters. They just dance for 3 hours with the kids and you get great one on one time with them.

Character breakfast with Disney Junior characters:

Jared and I were holding hands walking out of the Lights, Motors, Action! show when Jess so kindly pointed out, "What's wrong with this picture?" so we took a picture of them carrying our children while we walked infront of them carefree!

Joan wanted a picture of Jared's Mickey waffle, but he had already eaten the ears. For some reason he wanted to show off the fact that he had eaten those ears.

Halle took this picture of me and I thought it was a pretty good one.

At the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in Cinderella's Castle in the Magic Kingdom they transform little girls into princesses. Halle enjoyed every minute and loved when we didn't recognize her and confused her to be a princess.

Eli was hungry waiting for Halle to become a princess.

Halle's two favorite rides.

It was such a wonderful vacation!!!

Sleeping Beauty

Sweet conversations

Tonight as I was putting Halle to bed I picked her up to give her a squeeze and this conversation happened:
Me: What happened?
Halle: I growed up!
Me: I know!!

Halle: Do you want me to be a baby forever?
Me: YES!
Halle: Then I will be sad because I want to be a kid.
Me: Well then you could just be a kid forever.
Halle: NO! I want to grow up and be a mommy like you...and Eli will grow up to be a daddy!
Me: Oh...ok.

My sweet little girl is growing up!!! At least she wants to be a mommy just like me; makes me feel like a good mommy.

Blessing Day

Eli was blessed yesterday and we had so many friends and family gather for the occasion. My mom made his blessing outfit. The inexpensive ones were horribly ugly and the cute ones were on average $150. The booties I guess were made by my great grandma and matched so perfectly.

We have been working on finishing our basement since June. It's finally done (with the exception of two uncarpeted stairs due to installer error).

Before:

On the left side is where the stairs are. Almost completely enclosed with a miniature doorway through which no piece of furniture could possibly fit. So we had that wall torn out. You'll see that below.

After:

See the wall is torn out so that it's not such an enclosed space.

I was very excited about how perfectly that book shelf fit in this space.

Guest bedroom:

What you see going down the stairs:

Going to the right is the finished space (obviously). To the left is the unfinished space where we have food storage and regular storage of toys, Christmas stuff, etc.

This is my shelf reliance system I got from my parents for Christmas. I'm excited to slowly be filling it up due to Harmon's case lot sale this month.

Because we finally finished the basement we could move the queen size guest bed out of Eli's room and I can finally share pictures of his room. I know my sister has been wanting see better quality pictures so she can tell what colors the walls are. So, Erin, these are for you.

Have I said that I LOVE how his room turned out? Really really LOVE.